What should I do?
I noticed that there are these little bugs all over my plants. I looked online but I would prefer getting advice from professionals. What should I do about them?
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Half a spray bottle of water & a few drops of “cheap dish liquid” kills nearly all insects in matter of seconds or at the very latest after they dry out.
Kills spider mites nearly instantly also if you use a dash of garlic powder it acts as a repellent & biologically breaks down the exoskeleton of most insects.
Yellow sticky traps catch the flyers”adults” 1 part 3% hydrogen peroxide & 2 parts water as a soil drench kills all larvae,
If it’s anything being fed by or protected by ants.. 2-3” of Vaseline up the stalk from the ground. Will absolutely stop all that nonsense.
Kills spider mites nearly instantly also if you use a dash of garlic powder it acts as a repellent & biologically breaks down the exoskeleton of most insects.
Yellow sticky traps catch the flyers”adults” 1 part 3% hydrogen peroxide & 2 parts water as a soil drench kills all larvae,
If it’s anything being fed by or protected by ants.. 2-3” of Vaseline up the stalk from the ground. Will absolutely stop all that nonsense.
@CleanIcarus39 yellow sticky trap yes color matters A lot of the flyers are attracted to yellow will land on it like a magnet. That’s for the adults as for the larvae 1 part 3% hydrogen peroxide & 2 parts water
water deeply
This is a process, but it works, and you have to do both. If you do not kill the adults, they will lay more eggs that will grow into larvae. If you don’t kill the larvae, they will grow into adults. I’d say it’s a process. The soil drench works almost immediately May take a day or 2 to catch all the flyers.  fungus gnats are caused from the soil, being too wet for too long.
If it’s a plant that has feeder roots like Cana you can add organic mulch that will slowly break down feeding the soil microbes & protect the upper layer of soil.
water deeply
This is a process, but it works, and you have to do both. If you do not kill the adults, they will lay more eggs that will grow into larvae. If you don’t kill the larvae, they will grow into adults. I’d say it’s a process. The soil drench works almost immediately May take a day or 2 to catch all the flyers.  fungus gnats are caused from the soil, being too wet for too long.
If it’s a plant that has feeder roots like Cana you can add organic mulch that will slowly break down feeding the soil microbes & protect the upper layer of soil.
